Havelock News Highlights Local Military and School News
George Gist arrives on five day leave from the navy. Lawrence Buck now in Tokyo with a promotion. USO met at Legion hall. Jess DeVaul on a fishing trip to Canada. Havelock high opened season with 20 9 win over Ware. Gerald Nowack dies after illness. body to be interred in Washington cemetery. Bert Jacobson visits daughter near Mallard. Mary Jane Sanding stays with sister in Havelock. Dale Shimon promoted to captain in Germany. Highway 10 service station repairs pending reopening. Clint Bohn family moves to J B Sheldon residence. Legion Auxiliary holds school of instruction at Pocahontas. Mrs Preul to speak at W S C S meeting. No preaching at Methodist church due to misunderstanding. Rev J E Albertsen to lead Sunday. Magazine subscription contest winners to share chicken dinner. D J Wenck from Sioux Rapids visits. Harold Shimon to Great Lakes for honorable discharge. WWI veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gist
Navy
Lawrence Buck
Henry Buck
Tokyo
United Service Women of América
Legion Hall
Jess DeVaul
Canada
Laurens
Havelock High School
Ware
Gerald Nowack
William Nowack
California
Washington Cemetery
Arthur
Fonda
Bert Jacobson
Earl Hibbs
Mallard
Mary Jane Sanding
Rolfe
Dale Spiker
H. D. Grovers
Harold Shimon
Dale
Air Corps
Nuremberg
Germany
Highway No. 10
N.W
Clint Bohn
J. B. Sheldon
Speer
Community shower honors Pfc Harry Logan and wife
Pfc and Mrs Harry Logan were honored at a church basement shower with useful gifts and lunch served by hostesses. The Logans left for Chicago this week before Harry returns to Jefferson Barracks. Also noted are local service veterans and family visits including Walter Ohrtmann’s navy service and nursing sister Miss Ohrtman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Harry Logan
Pfc. Logan
Chicago
Harry
Jefferson Barracks
Local families gather as Williams and Davis kinvisit
Mr and Mrs Frank Williams of Pohacontas and Mr and Mrs George Davis and family of Laurens spent Sunday at the Jay Williams home. Word has been received Cpl Arnold Williams will be home Wednesday. Graveside services for Gerald Nowack held Monday. Speer family returned from southern Iowa visit with relatives and Lois in Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Williams
Pocahontas
George Davis
Laurens
Jay Williams
Cpl
Arnold Williams
Ray Gruver
G. A
H. D. Gruver
Lake Minnewashta
Gerald Nowack
Willis Speer
Myron
Iowa
Henry Oldfield
Casper Shorts
Lois
Waterloo
Robert Kirby
Steve
Great Lakes
J. R. Kirby
Hastings
Nebr
MM Kirby
Charles Albrecht
Virgil
Carroll
Darrell Schultz
Aldbrecht
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Rupert Wienhold
Fort Sheridan
Bernard Wienhold
Elaine and
Gwyn Gannon
Sioux City
H. C. Bierwith
Virginia Calligan
Dubuque
Clarke College
Calligan
Clarke
C. 5. Calligan
C. W. Meyers
William Anthe
Emmetsburg
Joseph
Clara Lorge
Bernard
Russell Young
Richmond
Calif
William
Susie Thompson
Mr. Young
California
Johnsons have medical and military assignments abroad
Lt. Gladys E. Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Axel Johnson, is assigned to McGaw hospital in Walla Walla Washington after 18 months overseas. She graduated from Lutheran Hospital Des Moines and was commissioned September 8 1942. She served at Fort Leavenworth and went to England in December 1948. The family includes Lt Judith Ellis assigned to Birmingham General Hospital Van Nuys England and T Sgt Alvin Johnson on Guam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys E. Johnson
Axel Johnson
McGaw Hospital
Walla Walla
Wash
Johnson
Lutheran Hospital
Des Moines
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
England
Johnsons
Judith Ellis
Birmingham General Hospital
van Nuys
Alvin Johnson
Guam
Havelock Methodist Holds Sunday School Rally
Rev. J. E. Albertson leads at Havelock Methodist Church with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship follows at 11 a.m. A Sunday school rally and program is scheduled during the Sunday school hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havelock Methodist Church
J. E. Albertson
Sacred Heart Freshmen Initiated as Class Reach 1945 46
The 19 freshmen at Sacred Heart high school in Pocahontas were officially welcomed as a class during initiation week September 17 to 21. An 8:30 p m ceremony in Holy Name hall featured faculty members and guests as seniors guided the rites including the famed last mile. The event ended with refreshments and the seniors praising the new class to the tune of For Theyre Jolly Good Fellows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart High School
Holy Name Hall
Geo. F. Wessling
V. L. Beacom
J. G. Schissel
Emma Hodapp
Annual house party held at Blackhawk Lake cottage
The 29th annual house party of local classmates gathered Sunday at a Blackhawk Lake cottage near Lake View. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Charles Nieman Pocahontas Mr and Mrs Gordon Johnson Pomeroy Mr and Mrs William Arnold Palmer Myr and Mrs Karl Galbraith Sac City. Two couples from Waterloo and Oskaloosa could not attend.
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Blackhawk Lake
Lake View
Charles Nieman
Pocahontas
Gordon Johnson
Pomeroy
William Arnold
Palmer
Myr
Karl Galbraith
Sac City
Waterloo
Oskaloosa
Golf Club Auxiliary Lights Up Clubhouse Bridge Night
Members of the Golf Club Auxiliary met in the clubhouse for four tables of contract bridge. Prizes went to Mrs. Charles Watts and Mrs. Frank Kopriva as high and second high scorers, with hostesses L B Eckerson and L P Grosvenor. Refreshments followed at the Pine Room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golf Club Auxiliary
Golf Club
Charles Watts
Frank Kopriva
L. B. Eckerson
L. P. Grosvenor
Pine
R. B. Dobbs
Charles Lindeman
Gerd Logsdon
E. R. Donahoe
Fox hunter chases and recovers fox after chicken incident
Donald Dockendorff of New London pursued a fox that wandered into a road lit by car headlights. The animal, blinded by the lights, moved down the center of the road and was pursued by Dockendorff, who says he has avenged a chicken killed at his farm yard by the fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Dockendorff
New London
Dockendorff
Corn Bomb Hits Japan
Lt Com R Brown of Creston Iowa drops a sack of Creston corn on a Tokyo airfield in a late carrier strike against Tokyo. He notes more trouble clearing California crop and plant inspection than in planting the corn in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Com. R. &, Brown
USN
Creston
Iowa
California
Fork causes fatal injury in Glenwood man accident
Albert Hagen of Glenwood was injured when a fork he placed in his car pierced him after the vehicle went out of control on a hill and overturned into a ditch while he helped a farmer stack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Hagen
Glenwood
Hagen
Potato seed balls resemble tomatoes on Belmond farm
Ralph Thayer of Belmond brings a potato vine with seed balls that resemble small tomatoes. The Belmond Independent notes this phenomenon appears every eight or nine years on potato land. Each seed ball holds 50 to 500 seeds and hosts 60 to 70 potato varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Thayer
Belmond
Potato Found Growing in Scrap Iron Hollow
A perfectly formed potato about the size of a hen's egg was discovered growing inside a hollow scrap iron piece in Cy Strayer's garden at Ocheyedan. The tuber filled the cavity and was tightly embedded, indicating it had reached its maximum size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Strayer
Ocheyedan
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Frank Ralle
D. J. Wenck
Sioux Rapids
Rena Hugeby
Harold
Harlan Markley
Belgium
Italy
Ohrtman
John Jacobson
Peterson
John Brazier
Chester Cornwell
Dickens
Clarence Cornwell
Henry Tdee
Fanaty
Pocahontas News
Margaret O’brien
Ames
Ray Beck
Frances Carey
Fort Dodge
Danny O’brien
O'Brien
Minneapolis
Lorge
Margaret Arens
Remsen
Clarence Groff
Dickie and
Clarence, Jr
Alton
Marie Kuhl
Jack Peters
Dick Love
George Peters
Max Naylor
Margaret Elaine
Red Oak
Naylor
Bal Bass
Evelyn Hronek
F.C.A
Wesley Hronek
Hronek
Glen Gulbranson
Soldier, In
Cliff Christian Sen
Brian and
Barry
Kankakee
Inl
Christensen
Pocahontas Auto Co
Fern Knight
Rolle Knight
George Segar
Nuapid City
S. D
T.T.C
R. R. Allen
T.T.C. Club
F. C. Schroeder
Schroeder
Nas
Oroku Fenian
Okinawa
Queen
Clea
Geiger
Styherd
Pavard
Battle of
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U.S. Marine Corsa
Japan
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Dilk
Standard Oil Company
Thompson Bros
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